I finally saw a note on the wireless LAN technology they are using. It
is (no surprise, I guess) the MIT RoofNet mesh system.
More at Daily Wireless:
http://www.dailywireless.org/modules.php?name=Newsfile=articlesid=5467
Best
Dave
On 5/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Taran,
Hi Andy
Others may have caught this. But you got my attention when your post
listed the extreme compression example as 292 bits. Wow! Actually, I
show 288 kB once I downloaded it.
Good work!
Dave
On 4/25/06, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
One of my video blog viewers
Andy
One measure of the internet's importance in research is the embrace of
open source science tools by young researchers for publishing their
results. They still receive peer review but the results are not
restricted by copyright or proprietary publishers.
An example close to home. Your
To Andy and all DDN folks
One great feature of Google Earth, for Mac users who haven't looked
into it yet, is the Google Earth Community. Users can share placemarks
and tours that get incorporated into the general Google Earth
database.
Here's my post about it, with a tour of my corner of the
Andy and DDN folks
For those who are interested, I've posted a short edited video from my
work with the San Bartolo archaeology team in 2004.
http://www.gomaya.com/glyph/archives/001553.html#001553
I couldn't really release it until National Geographic made the
announcement yesterday. I was not
Larsen
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Dave Pentecost wrote:
Matt
I'm working on an urban wireless project, and your post is good
encouragement and information.
Star OS is a good software tip. How about hardware? Antennas are
obviously key to long-distance systems. Do you have any tips based on
your
Yes there is a huge difference, which is the point of most
non-Microsoft technological initiatives in this area - the $100 laptop
is open source. It's also the reason that MIT turned down Apple's
offer to provide their OS. I'm sure others on this list are writing
right now with the same comment.
Dr. Linda D. Misek-Falkoff, Kris and others
Thank you for this thread. Please let us know how we can get more
information on the Respectful Interfaces program. I work in IT,
media and appropriate technologies in New York City (Lower Eastside
Girls Club) and Chiapas, Mexico.
Best
Dave
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And the seeds gain power as they create more seeds. Which is also
inherent in the mesh capabilities, where I have to take issue with
Taran's comment from another thread:
OK. I hate to be the myth-slayer here, and I was honestly hoping that
someone else would do it, but laptops with wireless cards
I think they mean 32 mb of flash memory (nonvolatile) as in your usb jumpdrives.
On 11/21/05, Adite Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure. But are companies really interested in creating audiovisual animations
for the limited literate population, which is not really a very lucrative
target
There is a clue at the bottom of your email:
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Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
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Is that generated by your computer or your ISP?
There are exploits that use your email address book to
can do and I will help to coordinate getting aid there.
Thanks
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I recommend a glance at Larry Lessig's opinion on this. It's not so
clear that Google is in the wrong. There is a case to be made for fair
use. And Google would not be providing the entire texts, only
excerpts. Read and see what you think:
http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003140.shtml
Best
Just an aside to this discussion, which is interesting and to the
point of digital divide and digital elite issues:
Many people considering digital divide issues are also concerned with
energy and sustainability. Is airline travel, in which each individual
is responsible for energy consumption
Hi Chris
I'll look back into some of my files and links, but you might want to
look into micro hydro power (tiny generators in streams or rivers,
linked to batteries). I researched it a bit when I was looking for
alternatives to a huge dam that was planned for the Usumacinta River,
between Mexico
David Weinberger has posted accounts of demos on 2 successive nights,
of H20 and OPML. It's a convenient place to get a taste of what's up
with these technologies:
http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/004231.html
Click the right arrow at the top of the page (Dave's outline editor)
to go to
famously ornery blog is a source for news on this:
http://archive.scripting.com/
I will post other links as I find them.
Best
Dave Pentecost
On 7/13/05, joseph savirimuthu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for this Deborah
We are trying to create a Visually Impaired Commons
site established
=articlesid=4198
He also has links to many other similar sites. And Sam has done a lot
of coverage of municipal legal battles in particular.
Good luck, Audrey! Let me know if there is something specific you
can't find - I may have run across it myself.
Best
Dave Pentecost
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Welcome, Neil, and I look forward to visiting your project next year.
I travel to Chiapas and Guatemala every spring. (See my site, The
Daily Glyph, for clues to my mania)
And I'll try to come up with some helpful ideas in the meantime.
Saludos
Dave
On 5/9/05, Neil Hendrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
of my highland base has
made a huge difference.
Wireless from San Cristobal de las Casas
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Creative Commons, which is fighting for more open culture through
copyright reform, has a similar science initiative that digital divide
network folks should be aware of.
http://science.creativecommons.org/
Best
Dave
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 15:11:28 +0530, Subbiah Arunachalam
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Just to add a little more information about Geekcorps:
The founder, Ethan Zuckerman, has a weblog called My blog's in
Cambridge, but my heart is in Accra.
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethan/
He's no longer with the organization, but he should be an invaluable
source of information regarding the
Thanks to John for bringing this resource disparity to the fore. It
reminds me of the disconnect of environmentalists putting a year's
worth of car driving carbon into the atmosphere for every plane flight
they take to an international conference.
Without someone like Andy tirelessly
Am I the only one who is confused in this discussion by the use of the
word broadcast? There was no mention in the original post of
broadcasting these presentations. The use described may still require
a license, but broadcasting is an entirely different use and requires
different licenses.
to all the folks on this list for such a high level of
thought and discussion.
Best
Dave Pentecost
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 12:00:06 -0500 (EST), Stephen Ronan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On PBS
to be realized (and the
first crop of videobloggers are evangelists for this) we would have to
be living on a far different planet.
And on that note I thank you for your patience, and wish you good night.
With dreams of narrowing the gap
Dave Pentecost
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 06:33:18 -0800, Jude
Pam
A content management system usually refers to a package of software
that helps you manage a website, not your own computer files. Most
blogging software (Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad) can be called CMS,
as can the CivicSpace package, which I am currently learning for a
couple of online
-wide network. Podcasting will be an
important part of the distribution process for all of this.
Best
Dave Pentecost
On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 12:04:48 -0500, Andy Carvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Today's Boston Globe has a nice story on podcasting and some of the
locals who are pioneering the medium
As a small clarification:
Andy wrote:
(You could also just download it to your computer, but that's not
as cool or tragically hip as listening to it on your iPod). So rather
than visiting someone's blog to listen to their audio program, my
computer captures the audio file automatically and
Here's the direct link for that article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4025197.stm
Cheers
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